ASUS TUF VG27AQ: What Real Users Say After Years of Use

I bought this from Amazon warehouse for $217. Been a great monitor and this is a really good price. Speakers are terrible but honestly didn't expect much in that department. Adjustable stand is really well made and useful. Colors look really good after looking up some recommended settings and tinkering with it a bit. I also really like having multiple ports in the back so I don't have to unplug my cables when switching devices.

Every fckn monitor is trash. Just pick the least trash one is motto.

I like this more than the Dell monitor in this class that gets posted. The bezels are super thin and stand is fantastic.

I don't like this monitor, the wake from sleep time is extremely long. All of my Dell monitors would wake almost immediately and this thing would lag behind and take several more seconds to display images. Also, only 8 bit. Color banding is very apparent on smooth color transitions.

I've had this monitor for a couple years, pretty solid. Motion/strobing could be a bit better, but not much to complain about for this price. Besides the speakers being downright horrendous.

This monitor is from 2019. Wouldn't really recommend buying it with how IPS panels have gotten better over time.

Just preparing my RMA for the VG27AQ. Used it for a day and I get image retention (persistence) from just browsing the web. Even a normal news article left for 15 min is enough for the screen to persist. I've had a lot of experience with IPS displays over the years and I've never seen this problem.

I have this monitor. It is okay. The backlight bleed sucks on a dark screen. The speakers are just not even worth having. I also had to do a ton of adjusting to get the contrast and gamma corrected. It was a little disappointing to be honest. It does not handle scenes in dark rooms well. It is fast, good response rate, and the specs are nice. I have warmed up to it a bit, but I really wished I spent more and got a nicer monitor. It definitely feels budget-tier.

It's good monitor aside from the obscene wake up time and the black smearing.

I have this monitor and when my cpu went dead the wake from sleep time further confused me in troubleshooting. Aside from that, its annoying for seconds. I also remember that something to do with blackness made witcher 3 not ideal compared to 100 hours on a tn monitor. Overall im pretty happy with it but only had a 1080p tn monitor to compare to.

I honestly preferred this monitor over my personal 27GL83a-b that I got on a steal a year or two back (~$300). My mate has this for his main, and I have the little brother to it as my secondary and it's fantastic.

I have this and dont see why its still at this price. I really hate how it takes like 10 seconds to turn on from sleep and also the contrast isnt great. Ive been looking for a while to compare others to this and ive almost pulled the trigger several times on a few 200 dollar monitors.

I bought this monitor ages ago for $300, debatable if its worth $200 today. It's alright but response times and colors aren't fantastic. Has a good stand tho.

I have this monitor and overall I would call it 'decent'. My main annoyances are a bit of backlight bleed in the upper left, and the colour accuracy and contrast are average for an AUO panel (ie: not great). I got it for a special price of $399 so I can live with the issues.

I know this is an older post, but wondering as I just bought this model. How's the brightness on it? Is it worth it to pay the extra for the other version of this monitor for the hdr400 etc? This will be the first time I'm actually looking into a monitor besides refresh rate so I'm not sure.

This is good for the price, but be aware of any conflicts regarding using 165Hz and HDR at the same time. It may result in really bad brightness flickering.

I used this as an in between monitor when I returned a aw2721dw and waited for the aw3821dw to go on sale for Black Friday. I highly recommend it. I liked it a lot and I sometimes miss it because I didn't really care about it being perfect since it was so cheap.

Good monitor but man does it take ages to wake up from sleep. I have a 3 monitor setup, my other two awake instantly while this one takes at least 5-7s. Not the end of the world but windows does struggle to re-orient my programs as it's happening. Can be quite annoying.

It's decent. I have this monitor. For IPS it could have better contrast but once again it's good enough.

I bought same monitor 2 days ago. 0 problem. Works perfectly. I have Asus 5070 and ryzen 5 7600, 32 gb ram. I play pubg and cs 2 and black mesa. And I can say gaming in my pc feels like real life scenery. So works fine. I am so happy.

Great, excellent colors for being a IPS, tried the suggested setting on racing mode and work great for low lit room without giving eye strain. Like it was mentioned the HDR is not fully real HDR but is ok. No ghosting, no noticeable bleed, no dead or stuck pixels, speakers are usable but not good. Cons: it doesn't have height adjustment but I knew that before getting it.

You are a god sent. The settings you provided are the BEST. Thank you so much for sharing this with us. You single-handedly corrected the colors on this monitor.

Got it after reading through your post, really happy with it.

Great post, I bought this monitor last month and love it as well. I'd say my version has slightly higher than normal IPS glow, noticeable sometimes but not immersion breaking.

I found a way to fix all the color distortions or any problems with the colors, if you head to your main monitor settings under color, then click color temp, change it from warm, to user mode, it fixes all the colors, now it looks 4k for me.

Thank you so much op for the detailed review! Im planning on getting this model, its quite cheap, 150$ from the latest model of this one! Current price is 200$ in canada.

Playing on it for 3 days now, the backlight glow significantly reduced on dark backgrounds and unnoticeable on any other colors when viewed on angle. I think I'm gonna keep this one!

Yeah the wake up time is crazy compared to the others I've had over the years. Also depending on your preset, you can't adjust brightness.

Have had this monitor for awhile now, highly recommended it.

I just today got the 24inch version and i'm loving it.

At least I know it's not just me that it takes so long for it to wake up.

I have had this monitor for 3 years now, and I absolutely love it. The ghosting can be pretty bad if you don't tweak the Tracefree setting but otherwise I have had zero issues with mine. Absolutely recommend it, especially at this price and from GameStop nonetheless!!

I love this monitor. 27", 1440p, 144hz, gsync, HDR, ISP. Lots of built in features (gimmicks). Way better than the similar Dell one I bought.

I have this exact monitor, have had it for 3ish years and I love it. That being said, there are definitely better panels out nowadays, although I'm not sure about in the same price range.

I got the VG27AQ and I am rather unhappy with it since the colours are rather bad and it sometimes being hard to read text on regardless of the sharpness I set it to. As a second (and by now it being the primary monitor) I got a LG 27GP850-B which is far better colour wise and about the same price. Also has less ghosting.

I'm returning mine, the picture is washed out trash. Used to have the vg27aq1a and it was the best. Debating on getting one again knowing its good or trying out the AOC Q27G3XMN.

For $125, this is a great deal! Honestly, a couple years ago this monitor would have been asking at least 350-400$ for this monitor. But due to the cheapening of high-end IPS display production in China, the prices of QHD monitors have dropped a lot. I still use this monitor and have no problems, no dead pixels, no distortions on the screen. It is still the same as the day I purchased it.

If you have HDR enabled in Windows turn it off. When HDR is enabled, it locks the monitor to Racing mode and you can't adjust anything.

As a 1080p monitor, it's great. As HDR it's REALLY bad. Not recommended for PS5. Have it as my PC monitor.

The wake time and multiple monitor icon memorization is broken on this monitor. It won't keep whatever windows you close on it, it'll get all moved around and broken. Super fucking annoying.

Hi, I'm a bit late, but is there problem with excessive motion blur specifically of this monitor?

Wow these have gotten cheap. I paid $720 for an Acer XB270HU in 2015.

I had this for a minute. It was a meh monitor.